Annual Sustainability Report FY12-13

Over the past four years, UCSF has built significant momentum toward tackling formal sustainability goals in response to UC Regents’ policies. The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS) has taken a leadership role in developing a comprehensive sustainability strategy and implementing measures that will help the campus and medical center become leaders in promoting a healthy environment and a sustainable future.

This Annual Report highlights the key accomplishments, activities and challenges of UCSF’s Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012-2013, as well as plans and goals for the FY 2013-2014.

We have identified metrics of interest to the UCSF community and provide them at this link. Instead of publishing an annual printed report we have opted to provide this electronic version thus reducing printing, paper use and waste. In this format, we will continually update this data to show our progress over time. We have also summarized the work of each of our work groups to show our progress for the past year and will update this annually. Using a GHG software solution to track, monitor, model and report all emission sources from electricity, natural gas, commute, business travel, fleet, water, waste, refrigerants and medical gases, we will continue to track our progress over time. In spite of our increasing square footage with new construction projects, we continue to seek efficiencies and reduce our resource consumption as much as possible.

Some of the key accomplishments and challenges over the past year are highlighted in a detailed summary from each work group.

Academic Senate Sustainability Committee
The Academic Senate Sustainability Steering Committee was officially approved by the Academic Senate to be a standing committee beginning September 2013. Prior to being approved, the Task Force developed and had approved a resolution on the Non-Therapeutic Use of Antibiotics in Agriculture by the academic senate and the Executive Committee at the Medical Center.

The Sustainability Steering Committee
The SSC consists of co-chairs of Ten Work Groups (WGs) who are responsible for driving and coordinating sustainability initiatives at UCSF.

Their main focus for the 2012-2013 FY has been the development of the Sustainability Action Plan (SAP 2.0) for 2014-2020. Most groups have adopted a consistent methodology in five steps:
1. Definition of goals and strategies,
2. Identification of potential tactics (from WG members’ inputs, previous SAP, peer institutions, sustainability guides),
3. Development of a tool to guide the prioritization process of these tactics in a consistent manner through four filters:

health impact,

environmental impact,

economic impact and

feasibility,
4. Tactics evaluation (7 groups have used this tool to conduct the tactics evaluation process),
5. Prioritization and development of a 2014-2020 timeline.

Idea development for assisting departments on hosting No Waste meetings, conferences, and other catered events

Tallying of one-time use plastics used annually in campus eateries (disposable cutlery, dishware, beverage containers, lids, etc.) as the first step in working toward reducing plastic pollution at UCSF (in collaboration with the Product Stewardship Institute of Boston)

Continue to offer Bulky Item Clean out Days for buildings in conjunction with Distribution + Storage (D+S) and potentially in partnership with Goodwill Industries - # of buildings completed & tons of material collected

Complete and implement the US EPA grant goals to identify EPP eco-labels and compliance certifications that will guide buyers on product selection and translate purchases into pollution reduction through BearBuy reporting

Achieved a 34% reduction between baseline year and FY12-13 through two major projects, an electric chilled water system and a medical gas upgrade saving over 4M gal/yr with an avoided energy cost of $1.3M/yr

Moffitt/ Long Lighting retrofit: Use of more energy efficient fixtures with electronic ballasts. Received more than $70,000 in PG&E Incentive Award

Long Medical Air Upgrade: replaced very old water cooled equipment with a more energy efficient equipment that will also save about 1 million gallon of water per year

ACC4 Malignant Hematology Remodel: Expect to receive at least LEED Silver and possible LEED Gold rating. First use of energy-saving chilled beam HVAC technology in a Medical Center remodel project. Designed in FY 2013, construction expected to be completed in June 2014

Moffitt/Long Supply Fan Replacement: Energy saving equipment

Initiative to reduce electrical use at D&C Offices: Retrofit with LED lighting and increased focus on switching off lights when not needed – saves approximately 10% of electrical consumption

Increase sustainability in the Medical Center remodel projects that don’t have currently mandated requirements – projects in acute care hospitals and non-acute care projects with project cost less than $5M